For Lulu's birthday this year we gave her a couple options a tea party with 3 of her friends or a bounce house place with lots of friends. We tried to keep Ruby from answering for her, Lulu's decision... after showing her a couple pictures of what each would mean, she quickly and with finality decided on a tea party- immediately Ruby's reaction, "Nooooooo Lulu, choose the bounce house place!" These girls are really taking on their own personalities, they have a lot of fun together but they are so different. So we did a fun little family party with ice cream cake, both sets of grandparents, and auntie ruth and her Schultz boy cousins on her birthday. The day after we did a tea party. I was so stoked to have my friend Heather come with her 10 (Emma) and 8 year old (Sam) to help out.
1. First we did crowns, frames, and mirror decorating crafts
2. Then for the Tea Party- I got 85% of the tea party supplies from my mother in law Nancy- it is so nice to live so close to my caterer in laws! I borrowed the Tea set, linens, serving ware.
3. We did a beauty parlor- Ruby set up the station (one of her favorite things to do is organize her station in her room, so I had her set up the beauty parlor, she did a great job)
The helpers paired up with the girls and did their nails, hair, or make up, depending on what the little girls wanted :
Ruby painted Wendy's finger nails and did her makeup, then put a ribbon and half a can of hair spray in her hair.
Emma did Lulu's finger nails and make up.
Sam did Melia's nails and makeup.
Heather did Amelia's nails and makeup.
The tea party was fun...
I gave each girl their own candle to blow out
After the present opening, the kiddies finally got to go out in the backyard to jump on the trampoline, which is what they were most excited to do the whole time.
A little bit about Lulu
1. She has been potty trained for almost a year already, still sleeps in her crib and doesn't climb out.
2. She loves to take care of babies, but doesn't want to be called one.
3. nicknames include- pumpkin headed baby, pumpkin head, lulu bubs,
4. She prays for her friend Melia every night.
5. She is a candy addict- nothing is off limits, she even likes hot tamales, ice breaker gum, sour patch kids.
6. She loves to cuddle, suck her thumb, has natural ringlets that I love to put in pig tails.
7. She loves to hug Ben's arm and express her love, "I love you daddy." She has Ben wrapped around her finger.
8. Clean eater
9. Will not let me get her dressed, has no fashion sense.
10. Always asks "WHY?" when told to do something.
And across the street the neighbor had some nice old snow that we were able to be entertained on.
And then the second day our friends came to join us, Yeah for Royah and Travis. It is nice having a friend with built-in friends for my kids. She is also pregnant with a boy a few weeks before me, so let the friendship continue.
Good times.
Made some Christmas Salsa with my mom and dad before they left to Tennessee. It was a gooood batch
These bad boys! Ben gave me one of these shelves for my birthday, and I was sorta confused... like "What?! Food storage shelves...(insert ungrateful comments)" Yeah I am eating my words... literally. After we assembled it, I asked Ben if we could get one more. They are really awesome!
#3 our Shelf Reliance Shelves in all their glory!
We are still in the process of sorting out all the crap that was in the shed, but to make it safer for the kids, we cover all the stuff with a tarp- think of it more as an invisibility Cloak, as you watch this footage- I love this time of life, no homework to deal with, no soccer or basketball practice to shuffle kids to and from... just tree climbing, swinging, and yelling across the neighbors backyard to the other neighbor kids.
This is Miss Ohana her teacher. She is really rad and lets me know how Rubes is doing. She even sends post cards to Ruby to let her know the good things she is doing. The best part about it is Ruby loves it! Miss Ohana tells me that Ruby always adds her own little touches to the project.
She pointed out that in this one, they were studying Modigliani and Ruby added the tear drops, cause she wanted the girl to be sad. Funny kid.
3. We did a beauty parlor- Ruby set up the station (one of her favorite things to do is organize her station in her room, so I had her set up the beauty parlor, she did a great job)
Emma did Lulu's finger nails and make up.
Sam did Melia's nails and makeup.
Heather did Amelia's nails and makeup.
The tea party was fun...
I gave each girl their own candle to blow out
After the present opening, the kiddies finally got to go out in the backyard to jump on the trampoline, which is what they were most excited to do the whole time. 
